It’s worse than that. Vance has been deep into the Yarvin-style theorizing of an American dictator via Trump and MAGA and has espoused it in his own words since at least 2022. He’s also clearly been in group chats with these sorts for at least that same time period. It isn’t just following.

Really need something to get through to liberals, progressives, and the Democratic Party (not the person QTed here): what a story is in the public imagination is not something that happens to you passively. It’s something you can and must shape. The broader left has ceded the info env for too long.

“Recursive Language Models”: RLMs let LLMs handle long prompts by recursively calling themselves on chunks, rather than scaling context windows. Inference-time compute instead of brute-force context length. arxiv.org/html/2512.24...

We do not need to resign ourselves to thugocracy, and Dems can fight America’s slide toward it by making it very clear to our corporate leaders that willful participation will cost them dearly. Deter collaboration.

mildly substance influenced thoughts: 2025 sucked but I saw NIN for the first time and NIN fucking rules live so y’know, the wise man bowed his head and such, but mostly, fuck yeah NIN. that’s my thought

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

Paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney recently published a global temperature record covering almost the past half-billion years. According to her model, 50 million years ago, inland temperatures approached 122 degrees Fahrenheit. www.quantamagazine.org/climate-extr...

Last of Us is getting weird

I’m sure the usual suspects agitating against cancel culture will be mounting a campaign in their defense momentarily.

“OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/...

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

That alternate universe would be glorious indeed.

Interesting post from Anthropic on challenges they had with getting Claude Code to reliably perform tasks of meaningful size: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

“You sit in your air conditioning and don’t murder civilians while I am the man in the arena murdering civilians”

The Belgian Malinois’ most cherished rule in life is: I will faithfully do whatever you tell me, but I will do it in the most unhinged way you can possibly imagine

Claude’s iOS app’s support for Reminders app is so under discussed and under used.

We're big skills fans at Letta, so I'm starting a communal repository for skills that is intended to be built by and for agents as they learn how to accomplish specific tasks. Repo here: github.com/letta-ai/sk... Skills are organized by domain, and further subdivided by topics.

Tapbots’ Bluesky client cannot come soon enough. I really miss Tweetbot to begin with and Bluesky’s own iOS client is aggressively mediocre

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

“Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms. The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter.” interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Apple Music out here trying to end my day before it starts making me all wistful and sad playing Elliott Smith’s Twilight and Beck’s Already Dead back to back. Good taste Apple Music but not today, not today

Still thinking a lot about Anthropic’s Agent Skills. There’s something profound here. They feel a bit like the Matrix, able to load arbitrary knowledge and skill on the fly into an agent.

It’s outrageous they’re killing innocent people, but we also need to stress, every time, that it would not really matter even it were absolutely certain that they were drug traffickers. Murdering criminals is still, you know, murder.

My God, the worst fear come true on this.

Can we talk about how absurd it is Westworld isn’t available in HBO Max. I feel like this isn’t talked about enough. A true crazy pills moment

Claude Skills seems like a super useful construct. On first blush, it feels like instead of giving someone a tool, giving them a whole manual and multiple tools to use together. Instructions, code to execute (i.e. a “tool”), and hierarchical relationships within the manual.

got laid off due to restructuring :( i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

Letta Cloud now provides Anthropic's `memory` tool, enabling agents to dynamically manage their own memory architecture. Agents can create, delete, view, and modify memory blocks as they learn. In the video below, we use the memory tool in the ADE with Sonnet 4.5 to create a new memory block.

one way you could describe lincoln's approach is of never getting ahead of the public on its attitudes, but holding an immovable set of principles on where the country ought to be and where he hopes to lead it

The protocol is the API. I highly recommend this post. Bluesky is great. atproto is the real star.

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

“'You can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration,' Letterman says” variety.com/2025/tv/news...

There is no “critics say”; the President is demanding his DOJ go after his enemies.

Gonna use social media for its real purpose for a second (post blurry ambiguous show photos)

revealed preference is that many US elites prefer crony capitalism and promises of a mechanical god to science and innovation

“Agents” and “tools” is more a conceptual advancement than technical. Agent helps because it formalizes thinking about actors with particular roles they perform, which is a clarifying conceptual abstraction for how to build AI capabilities. Each agent has a role it performs which can be composed.

The sirens can’t be any redder or blare any louder

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

I really love Shortcuts in OS 26. I have an automation set up which pulls my latest meeting notes, runs them through GPT-5 using Apple’s model shortcut and a simple prompt to output any action items related to me, and then creates a new to-do in my Things inbox for each one. It’s super helpful.

Surtain back on the field

Most censorious period in modern American history. Democrats and everyone of note on the left should be making this the central message of everything going forward. Normies' lives are getting ruined because of the right and freedom of speech actually can resonate with people.

Among everything else, he pushed lies that the 2020 election was stolen, and helped bus people into Trump’s January 6th mob. You call that a start? Participating in Trump’s plot to seize power is a start?

“friends u play dnd with definitely” is just brutal

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...